On Sunday,Russian nationalists Orange Revolution. in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet, threw Ukrainian history textbooks into boxes at the foot of a local monument to Russian empress Catherine the Great.

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The base is said to be home to a fleet of unmanned drones and planes specializing in electronic warfare.

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It is also home to the US Fifth Fleet and a close ally of the United States.

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